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Black pottery featuring "weird faces"

www.chinanews.cn 2006-03-06 16:05:26

Yang Congquan, a black pottery artist from Shandong's Rizhao City, was
showing his elaborate ancient-style black pottery artworks featuring
weird faces on March 3. Pottery culture is regarded as a treasure of
primitive Chinese culture, and Yang was inspired from the traditional
folk "Nuo culture" to create these "weird face" masks. Learning from the
technique of ancient Nuo mask production and combining it with black
pottery firing skills, he produced a total of 500-odd "weird face" masks
covering three categories, namely just gods, demons and earthly people.

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